Caribbean Supper for Katja

Bob & I woke up this morning and did devotions together, like we had been doing  back in the States.  While we were doing devotions, I saw movement behind him (his back was to the sink area in the kitchen).  I focused a little bit more & saw a giant cockroach crawling around on a few dishes in the dish-rack.  It was probably between an inch & 1/2 to two inches long!  Bob wanted to get a picture of it because it was the first non-caged cockroach of this size he had ever seen, but when he pressed the button on the camera, as always happens the flash came before the shutter, so the cockroach took off and Bob just had a picture of the dish-rack.  The cockroach was hiding underneath the dish-rack, so Bob offered to kill it...or take it outside, I don't really remember.  He went to get some toilet paper to grab it with, but it was a little too fast for Bob!  Perhaps we'll see it get the courage to come out tomorrow.

Bob & Andres headed off to the guys circle and I headed to the girls circle, and then to serve breakfast & do dishes.  While I was doing dishes, Bob & Andres stopped by for the keys.  Yolani made a comment about Bob being a good husband...that Honduras husbands aren't as nice (of course, while dating they are...but after marriage they're not).  I just smiled & said we have quite a few men like that in the United States as well.  Yolani checked my head for lice before I headed back to the apartment to update my blog.

Between breakfast and lunch, I stopped by to talk with Katja about running into town this afternoon.  She was meeting with the 3 female volunteers that arrived over the weekend, letting them know what their responsibilities would be.  She introduced me to Loren, who would be working at the little girls house and said she was to meet me there for lunch.  After chatting for a few seconds, I ran to grab Danny & Katy a soda from the tienda.  I had promised Katy a soda yesterday when we took all of the children to the tienda, but since we were there for so long & getting so distracted, I had completely forgotten.  They were very thankful and asked me to stay and chat, but I really wanted to get some pictures of Bob & Andres working with the cement, so said my goodbyes and headed in the direction of the boys area.  Unfortunately Andres & Bob were walking my way at the same time.  They were done with work for the morning.

There was only about 1/2 hour to rest before lunch began, so we sat back at the house & rested up a little bit.  I headed to lunch and met Loren there.  I introduced her to Danny, Esperanza, Dunia & Maria and let them know she'd be helping out.  I showed her how to lower the tables and that it was necessary to get the spoons & water set out before the kids got back from school, if possible.  After lunch, we did as many dishes as we could before Kelsey came by to let us know it was time to get running into town.

I headed back to the apartment to get Andres & Bob (his first time in town).  We stopped by Glenda's so that I could introduce her to Bob.  She's been asking about him for the past 5 years.  We got a picture together and then headed to the little bakery where we bought another loaf of banana bread and some marble bread for Andres,  before heading to the two supermarkets.  The supermarkets down here are much, much smaller than anything you've seen in the States.  Think of the old general stores and then cut that size in 1/2.  That's the size of the supermarkets down here.  They don't always have what you want (as Bob found out), but they are interesting!  We loaded up on some guava juice for Andres and pear & peach juices for us (since there were only 4 guava juices left & I knew Andres would drink them all).  Bob got a bunch of ingredients for 2 special dinners he would make this evening and tomorrow...will chat more about that later.  We took taxis back to Emmanuel from town.  These taxis (if I hadn't mentioned this in a prior post) are like covered-wagon mopeds with 3 wheels & when I see them I think I'm somewhere in Asia.

When I got back to the house, I called the hotel we'd be staying in on Thursday and Friday night to confirm our reservation and also to change our King-Sized Bed to a 2-double bed room (since they were at the same price).  More on that later...then I called the Compassion International location in Tegucigalpa to make the final arrangements on meeting Eduardo (Andres' sponsored child) on Friday.  Although Andres & I had met him 4 years ago, it'll be Bob's first time meeting Eduardo.  I'm so excited for Bob being able to meet him, especially since Eduardo graduated from the program last month, so we'll most likely lose contact with him after this.

While I headed to do supper and baths with the little girls, Bob stayed back making a wonderful carribbean supper for Katja and her family.  It consisted of mashed potatoes, lime-flavored chicken, a butter sauce over green beans, and a fruit salsa.  It looked REALLY good.  I wanted to thank Katja for having me these past 5 years (and of course she said that I was more than welcome for another 5!). 

As Bob was waiting to finish up supper, him Andres & I played a game of Clue & Scattergories.  While we were playing Scattergories, Doris came over to chat with us and to drop off a note she had written for us.  It was really a good time!  After Doris left, Bob got back to finishing up the supper and at 7pm, we delivered it to Katja.  Her & Max (her husband) were SO excited!  I'm hoping to hear tomorrow that they liked it.

When we got back, Bob & I decided it was time to head to bed.  Although it was only 7:30pm here (8:30 WI time), when you put in a day of hard work outside in the sun with no air conditioning, you tend to get tired very quickly.  Andres wanted to read a bit more in his book, Hunger Games, which came from the volunteer house.  I think he started it yesterday or today and he's over 1/2 way through the book!  It looks like he'll finish before we head out on Thursday.